Trans-Alaska pipeline work finishes with rapid test plans
Workers completed the 800 mile pipeline to Valdez and expect oil flow from the Arctic North Slope by next summer. The final link was installed at Thompson Pass near Valdez after 20 months of construction. operation slated for mid 1977 with initial pumping at 600000 barrels daily, doubling to capacity soon after. Water tests and welding remain, mainly at Valdez and pumping stations.
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Anchorage, Alaska
UPI
Arctic North Slope
Rugged
Thompson Pass
Valdez
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Tonsina
Alyeska
Israel women face widening pay gap despite draft parity
Israeli women eligible for military service alongside men are failing to secure equal pay. A government report to Prime Minister Rabin finds average female earnings at 80 percent of men’s for the same work, with the disparity widening. Parliament member Ora Namir notes weak lobbying. the study also cites rises in rape and prostitution and inadequate family planning services.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Yitzhak Rabin
Ora Namir
Israel
GM Electricians Threaten Strike Over New GM Contract
The IUE representing 30,000 GM workers vows to strike if a new contract is not agreed by 12:01 a.m. Friday. A strike would halt work at five plants in Dayton and Warren Ohio Rochester New York and New Brunswick New Jersey. Union claims GM management refuses reasonable proposals on key issues including shorter work time and better health care. negotiations expected to resume today.
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Detroit
UPI
International Union of Electrical Workers
General Motors
Dayton
Ohio
Warren
Rochester
N.Y
New Brunswick
N.J
Prince Bertil Weds Mrs. Lilian Craig at Drottningholm Palace
Prince Bertil of Sweden and Mrs. Lilian Craig, together for 33 years, married in a private Drottningholm ceremony. Archbishop Sundby officiated as a few hundred guests watched outside in overcast conditions. The bride becomes Her Royal Highness Princess Lilian and duke Bertil holds the title of duke of Halland.
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Stockholm
Sweden
UPI
Bertil
Lilian Craig
Drottningholm Palace
Olof Sundby
Prince Bertil
Mrs. Craig
Lilian
Halland
Man Holds Banker on 62 Story Roof for Nicotine Message
Dolphin Lair, a 21 year old janitor in Los Angeles, held Martin F. Hickey, 55, chief engineer of the United California Bank Building, on the roof for two hours to broadcast a nicotine poison warning after his father died of smoking related cancer. He surrendered to police afterward.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Dolphin Lair
Martin F. Hickey
United California Bank
Prison order demands equal treatment for protected inmates
US District Court Judge Hugh Bownes ruled the New Hampshire State Prison must end cruel and unusual treatment of 35 protective custody inmates. Officials have 30 days to draft a plan and up to 120 days to implement equal care, regardless of funding.
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Concord
N.H
Upi
New Hampshire
US District Court
Hugh Bownes
Drunks Pushed to Work as Winter Shelter Plan
Salt Lake City police chief Dewey Fillis says 16 people were arrested for public intoxication over the weekend, more than usual due to cold weather. He argues drunks seek jail time and costs to taxpayers and proposes a work program to keep them out of jail.
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Salt Lake City
UPI
Dewey Fillis
Fillis
Computer system aims to diagnose 1400 birth defects
A collaboration among the National Foundation-March of Dimes, Tufts New England Medical Center, and MIT develops a 10 million character computer system. When online via public telephone link doctors can input symptoms, receive diagnostic information, and request further data. The system, now at MIT and tested at Tufts, targets rare birth defects unseen by many practitioners.
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National Foundation-March of Dimes
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts
Mit
Bergsma
Sydney Gellis
John J. Donovan
MIT Sloan School of Management
Donovan
Gellis
Arab Palestinian clash near Tripoli kills at least 25
In Lebanon, pro Syrian Saiga guerrillas and Yasser Arafat's Fatah factions clash near Tripoli. The fighting, the fiercest since the arrival of the Arab peacekeeping force, leaves at least 25 dead and many wounded amid ongoing instability in Beirut and major cities.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Tripoli
Saiga
The
Yule spirit can't save marriages
Tulsa County District Judge Robert Martin ended a holiday moratorium on divorces, saying the Christmas spirit cannot save failing marriages. For years no divorces were granted from mid December to January 2, but the judge decided not to extend the tradition. He noted many couples already separated rushed to file before the deadline, and he doubted a two week pause would reconcile them.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPI
Robert Martin
Martin
Coleman to test airbags not mandated by Coleman
Detroit automakers resist a federal Air Bag test plan proposed by Transportation Secretary Coleman to equip 1979 and 1980 models with airbags in a half million cars for two years at an estimated cost. GM Chrysler Ford respond with cautious support for more testing while disputing the proposed prices and feasibility.
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Detroit
UPI
Washington
Transportation
William Coleman
U.S
Coleman
Transportation Department
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motor Co
Parochial teacher appeals firing over venereal disease seminar
Robert M. Henry a 25 year old Notre Dame High School social studies teacher in Central Falls Rhode Island appeals a October firing after teaching a venereal disease seminar to 65 students. He claims the subject was educational while church officials say it was offensive and outside the course scope. The diocesan appeals board may recommend reinstatement but cannot order it.
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Central Falls
R.I
UPI
Robert M. Henry
Notre Dame High School
Peace Corps
Naugatuck
Leon C. Maynard
Henry
Rita Blaise
Sisters of St. Ann
Bush League
Supreme Court curbs Austin desegregation busing plan
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 5th Circuit ruling, saying Austin schools need not impose a massive busing program. Superintendent Davidson warned a large plan may not be needed as housing patterns largely drive segregation, while Mexican-American and black leaders criticized the decision.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
Austin
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
High Court
Jack Davidson
Davidson
East Austin
Appeals
Supreme Court
Ford's Farewell State Dinner For Giulio Andreotti
President Ford hosted his last scheduled state dinner for a foreign leader Andreotti while thanking longtime allies from the Republican party Michigan and corporate worlds. Guests included Kissinger Rockefeller Burger and Dole with top advisers and fundraisers such as Melvin Laird Bryce Harrold and Max Fisher, plus a reception at Bethesda Maryland.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Republican Party
Michigan
Giulio Andreotti
Oval Office
Tony Orlando
Bethesda
Andreotti
Henry Kissinger
Nelson Rockefeller
Warren Burger
White House
Congress
Bob Dole
Melvin Laird
Bryce Har
Add Co
Robert Carter
Max Fisher
Kissinger Heads to NATO Ministers Meeting in Brussels
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger travels from Andrews Air Force Base for what is likely his last NATO ministerial council. Officials call the session routine but note concerns over Soviet momentum in Eastern Europe, with discussions on a no first use nuclear pact and a freeze on NATO and Warsaw Pact memberships. He plans to brief European allies on Washington’s transition and then proceed to London before returning to Washington.
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James Anderson Washington
UPI
Henry Kissinger
Brussels
NATO
Kissinger
Andrews Air Force Base
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Europe
Washington
U.S
In God We Trust Motto Arrives on Currency Timeline
The phrase In God We Trust first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864 and Congress later required it be printed on all paper money and coins starting in 1955.
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U.S
Congress
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